On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:05:19PM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > Given the grub1/grub2 discussion that is going on, I could use some info > about the state of grubby's support for grub1. The virtual machine > images that the Cloud SIG publishes on Amazon EC2 do not require > bootloaders, but they do require valid grub1 *configuration files* to > start. So while these images will survive grub1's eventual retirement, > they will still need grubby to support grub1 configuration files for the > foreseeable future so kernel updates can continue to work correctly. Is > that realistic? Are there currently any plans to kill off grubby's > grub1 support at some point? In case anyone is wondering what Amazon is up to, the PDF document below explains it in detail: http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/user_specified_kernels.pdf also this announcement: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/use-your-own-kernel-with-amazon-ec2.html (In short, pvgrub! I thought that was dead and buried a long time ago ..) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
